![]() ![]() Stanley is reverential about adhering to the employee handbook, while Jevon is clearly too smart to be slinging sandwich patties for minimum wage and has no intention of busting his ass in a thankless court-ordered job. The odd-couple interplay between straight-arrow Stanley and politically outspoken Jevon, with his eye-rolling attitude, fuels much of the shrewdly observed early humor. Jevon, however, has barely looked at the boy since getting out of county lockup. Jevon’s girlfriend Sidney (Birgundi Baker) has also seen her plans to study law stalled, sacrificing her college track scholarship to stay home and take care of their young son. Having quit his job to move to Florida and pull his ailing mother out of a retirement home, Stanley is entrusted with the training of his replacement Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a once-promising young African American writer, on probation for defacement of a public monument. ![]() He even seems impervious to the thinly veiled mockery of football jocks who pick up sandwiches from his drive-through window. Stanley is one of those characters in movies about the American underclass who comes under the reductive general header of “sad-sack loser,” yet he’s distinguished by a pride in his work and refusal to bemoan his dead-end life that gives him a touching resilience. ![]()
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